Whooooo endlich wieder da: unser Rosa Luxemburg-Fanschal, rechtzeitig zum Winter-Comeback. „Die Zeiten sind schlimm und verworren – und doch, trotz alledem, behalten Sie nur den Kopf hoch“, schrieb sie 1918. Hält warm & erfreut, wem ihr Werk viel bedeutet: https://dietzberlin.de/fanschal-rosa-luxemburg
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Dank an @sabinenuss (»Der verdrängte Kapitalismus«) für die kleine spontane Foto-Session 😘

#bookstodon #rosaluxemburg #womeninhistory #revolutionarywomen #luxemburg #schal #fanschal #rosaluxemburgultras #ultras

Jenny Marx, #OTD 1814 geboren, organisiert das Geschäft ihres Gatten Karl, eines politisch verfolgten Gesellschaftstheoretikers. Sie bringt sein Werk voran, flüchtet mit ihm nach Paris, Brüssel, London, bringt 7 Kinder zur Welt und gibt nie auf. Her story: https://dietzberlin.de/jenny-marx-die-biographie

#jennymarx #socialist #marx #karlmarx #daskapital #marxengels #marxengelswerke #herstory #feminismus #women #womeninhistory #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #bookstodon #marxsky #biografie

#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.

The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors. The day is now Pakistan's Women's Day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Germany's Carina Vogt (pictured) wins gold.

Previous objections to the event included a man saying, in 2005, that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *2005*.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.

"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.

Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

Phyllis Munday: Conqueror of the Rockies

Mountaineer and naturalist Phyllis Munday was a true trailblazer. In 1924, she and Annette Buck were the first women to summit Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. A skilled cartographer, she also mapped over 180 square kilometres of BC's wilderness, a significant contribution to Canadian geography. #Canada #Mountaineering #WomenInHistory #CanadaIsAwesome 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Munday

Catherine de Medici: The Orphaned Italian Girl That Seized The French Throne

From orphan to "The Serpent Queen." Discover the ruthless political genius of Catherine de Medici and how she navigated the deadly intrigues of the French court to become one of history’s most powerful women.

#History #CatherineDeMedici #FrenchHistory #Royalty #HistoricalFigures #WomenInHistory

https://www.history-channel.org/catherine-de-medici-the-orphaned-italian-girl-that-seized-the-french-throne/

Mud, glorious mud!

#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.

The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons